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- Goo.gl – Google’s url shortner
- DirectX 11 transition to be the fastest
- T- Mobile partners with Google for Nexus One
- Intel debuts 48 Core Processor
| Goo.gl – Google’s url shortner Posted: 15 Dec 2009 05:02 AM PST
Some times long url’s are really hard to pass along.There are many short url services like tinyurl.com , cli.gs , bit.ly , is.gd , zi.ma , tr.im , budurl.com , snipurl , poprl and many more to share via twitter when 140 characters are too less to share.In addition to these facebook have also launched their shortening service fb.me.Today Google has also joined in competition and started their own shortening service Goo.gl.It’s only being used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner. Google just announced the new service as a sharing feature of Toolbar that will let you share a web page directly from Toolbar. Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: Stability – ensuring that the service has very good uptime Security – protecting users from malware and phishing pages Speed – fast resolution of short URLs Google URL Shortener is currently available for Google products and not for broader consumer use.Google assures that its shortener will be stable and secure to help protect users from clicking on malicious sites. And unsurprisingly, Google promises a speedy service for links. Facebook and Google's venture into this arena will threaten bit.ly, the most widely-used URL shortener and default service on Twitter and many Twitter clients. Up until now, bit.ly has moved quickly to become the standard shortener. But the sheer volume of short links which both Facebook and Google can produce could soon overwhelm the number of bit.ly links. Most importantly what matters is the data behind the links.Hope Google makes it wide stream to all of his products.If you need alternatives you can check out Mashable’s list of url shortners. |
| DirectX 11 transition to be the fastest Posted: 15 Dec 2009 03:12 AM PST After ATI released DirectX 11 graphic cards including the fastest graphics card ever i.e 5970, Nvidia seems to be lagging in the competition with its lack of DirectX 11-compatible graphics processing units (GPUs).DirectX 11 provides better performance and higher quality images in next-generation PC video games.Graphics market analyst Dean McCarron says the transition to the new application programming interface (API) will be the fastest in the industry. Over the last decade, graphics processors supporting each new version of DirectX have achieved high volume shipments earlier in their life cycles than their predecessors. Our forecast is that DirectX 11 capable GPUs will continue this trend with the fastest transition between technologies ever, resulting in shipments surpassing DirectX 10 GPUs in 2010," said Dean McCarron, the principal of Mercury Research, in a recent report about the state of graphics processors market. Take the case of ATI, it has shipped over 800 thousand of graphics processing units (GPUs) that support DirectX 11 application programming interface.The company said that so far it has shipped over 500 thousand ATI Radeon HD 5700-series graphics processing units code-named Juniper and over 300 thousand graphics chips known as Cypress that power ATI Radeon HD 5800-/5900-series graphics adapters. Thanks to partly resolved supply issues with 40nm chips, AMD's graphics business unit seems to have high chances of shipping around a million of DirectX 11-supporting graphics processors this year. The most affordable DirectX 11 graphics card – ATI Radeon HD 5750 is available for about $140 in the U.S. – whereas the most expensive – ATI Radeon HD 5970 – costs over $600.Good sales of the latest graphics cards will help Advanced Micro Devices to post greater revenue and profits for this quarter.For the regular users, who are not hardcore gamers or gaming at 1680×1050 or below, or 1440×900 or below resolutions 5850 and 5770 are really good options. 5870 is a beast in itself. At present only ATI, ships ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870/5900-series graphics chips that support DirectX 11 API. While the company has managed to ship over a hundred of thousand of performance-mainstream ATI Radeon HD 5700-series graphics boards so far, the shipments of high-end ATI Radeon HD 5800/5900-series are limited by supply issues caused by low 40nm yields at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. The most affordable DirectX 11 graphics card – ATI Radeon HD 5750 is available for about $140 in the U.S. – whereas the most expensive – ATI Radeon HD 5970 – costs over $600.Good sales of the latest graphics cards will help Advanced Micro Devices to post greater revenue and profits for this quarter. Early next year ATI is expected to release mainstream and low-end desktop ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics solutions in addition to the new generation of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000-series graphics chips for notebooks, which will allow AMD to offer top-to-bottom DirectX 11 lineup. As of now there is no news of Nvidia’s next-generation code-named GF100 (NV60, GT300) chip to be released, may be in Q1 2011.Nvidia's first quarter of fiscal year 2011 begins on the 26th of January and ends on the 26th of April, 2010. As a result, we do expect Nvidia to release its high-performance flagship GeForce "Fermi" GF100 consumer graphics card sometime between January and March. However, it is unclear when exactly Nvidia is able to release mainstream, entry-level and mobile GPUs based on the Fermi graphics architecture. The main and obvious advantage of DirectX 11 graphics cards nowadays – whether it is ATI Radeon HD 5000 or Nvidia GeForce "Fermi" – is increased performance compared to previous-generation products.Not much of games are released yet except dirt 2 which utilize DirectX 11 functionality, but 5870 is not powerful enough when it comes to DX11 games as Dirt2 shows.I hope the results in Dirt 2 are really because of immature drivers/bad coding/lack of a patch. As a result, with increased performance for existing titles and additional features of DX11, newer-generation graphics boards will indisputably become very popular in the next couple of quarters.Lets hope Nvidia bucks up fast. |
| T- Mobile partners with Google for Nexus One Posted: 14 Dec 2009 12:27 PM PST I had posted about the next gen phone from Google dubbed as Nexus One.The user experience would solely be of Google and without the HTC branding.Nexus One would be sold unlocked online via retailers and shops.But Google is also partnering with T-Mobile to push the phone after Verizon declined.
That partnership also explains why the Google Phone will use GSM rather than CDMA technology, limiting it to AT&T or T-Mobile: Google only made the decision after Verizon passed on the opportunity to market the device, according to MediaMemo.Google phone would be rumored to be launch by January 2010.Upon receiving the phone, users will choose their carrier from a menu.Lets wait and watch what Google devises. |
| Intel debuts 48 Core Processor Posted: 14 Dec 2009 12:04 PM PST Intel debuted and demonstrated its Single-Chip Cloud Computer (SCC) processor. The processor has 48 cores–24 dual-core “tiles”–connected with a high-speed mesh network. Intel wants the experimental chip, at least 100 of which it’ll distribute to researchers in 2010, to lead to new attempts to tackle multicore system and software design. Ultimately, Intel believes its aggressive multicore approach will be the way computers get enough power for tasks such as vision and speech comparable to what humans have.
Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner showed off the SCC chip in an event in San francisco.
The processor consumes between 25 and 125 watts of power The processor consumes between 25 and 125 watts of power.Intel had two SCC prototype computers on display. Because the SCC chips use ordinary x86 processor cores, regular software such as Windows and Linux can run on them. The SCC systems can accommodate up to 64GB of memory, but this machine had 16GB.
Intel’s SCC chip’s x86 cores each are comparable in power to the lower-end Atom line used in Netbooks today.Each node on the SCC chip includes two x86 cores with its own memory cache. Linking them to the outside world is router circuitry that handles networking on the chip. The network lets processors exchange information and communicate with any of four DDR3 memory banks.
It looks like Intel wants to keep its SCC chips cool, judging by the size and amount of copper around the processor.These 48 cores aren’t your regular cores like in a Nehalem or Core2Duo processor.These are basically 48 Atom cores.
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